we have seen how many claims that this self exclusion is just a joke that it does not work how it says to be because the truth is that is just a trap for you to believe there is a way out but no, there isn't.
Self exclusion is a joke or not depends on which point of view we see. In general, self exclusion feature in casino is a tool provided by the casino as part to help gamblers to manage their gambling habits. It can be used as a start for a gambler to stop addiction but the next process will always depending on the gamblers themselves. I will not say it is a trap, it is a trap for those who cant deal with their own addiction who will always try to find other parties to be blamed.
You are right in some parts, self exclusion is not a trap at all just as you have said, it's only a trap for those who choose to see and believe it is.
But on the other hand, I personally do not believe that self exclusion can help a hard core gambler who is deeply addicted to gambling to stop or come out from his addiction, reason being that, there are alot of casinos, hundreds of thousands of them, and self exclusion only works on the casino where it is requested and applied, so, it's not like if you ask to be self excluded from any casino, when the request is honored, it will take effect on every other single casinos around, if this was how self exclusion was built to work, then it would have been very effective in helping addicted gamblers come out from their addiction, since once they ask to be self excluded, they won't have access to any online casino in the world.
But with the current setting, one can self exclude him or herself from one casino, then go ahead to sign up on another casino to continue gambling.